I've run into hackers on Xbox, but only two in my time playing the game. Sometimes it's easy to tell--OHK'ing people at 500m+ with a SCAR-L tends to be suspicious, but it could be lag or lucky shots, etc. Something like that isn't a perfect indicator, much as many people get hackusations for something like that (goodness knows I've gotten hatemail accusing me of hacking for getting AN-94 kills at 200m).

Of the hackers I've run into, one was OHK'ing people through buildings and from one spawn into the other, often with weapons whose bullets should have expired by that distance (since most weapons have ~900m range).
The other was really odd, a low-level guy (rank 15, not a colonel) with 70+% accuracy on weapons he used in the games I played against him (according to BLog), who always got headshots and could always turn on people and kill them with 2-3 rounds, even if they spawned behind him and didn't move. Probable aimbot, and his stats as a rank 15 with a 7 k/d and 65% accuracy on assault rifles helped with that suspicion.

Now, as for crazy glitches, sometimes it can be hard to tell. I've had Javelins glitch out and gain stupid range (2000m+, shooting spawn to spawn on Firestorm--seen it 3 times), both for me and against me. That's hard to tell, because major irregular and potentially gamebreaking glitches happen though they don't appear to be glitches at first, at least until you've talked with the other people involved.

Most people who were ignorant of the M26 glitch would've called it a hack, even though it wasn't. The problem is that most players mistake glitches for hacking. That said, I don't want people to just say "here's a gamebreaking bug that we've found to exploit" and share it with the world, because that could be dangerous too.

Now, on the topic of cheating, I consider boosting to be cheating. If an admin bans an entire team to avoid a loss, I'm perfectly content to report him to BLog for boosting W/L (a friend of a friend was supposedly reset for that). But then again, if you're playing with a group of friends, does that not increase your stats beyond what you could achieve on your own? It's rather subjective, what's fair and what's not.

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ViperFTW: HEY LOOK
ViperFTW: AN ALIEN LASER FISH THE SIZE OF THE SUN
ViperFTW: I WANT TO SWAT IT WITH MY COMICLY LARGE SWORD
ViperFTW: WITH
ViperFTW: THIS
ViperFTW: AS
ViperFTW: MY
ViperFTW: FUUUUCKING SOUNDTRACK DDD

And a comment from someone else on TechPowerUp (that's the site's platoon the guy in question is member of)"If you think that is hax then you need to go back to WoW."

Yeah legit as fuck...

12.64 kills per minute and the whole enemy team was just a big pile of death, yeah, legit as fuck :>

I've come across like 10-15 obvious hackers during my soon 400 hours in game... There are a lot of people half hacking though and not just going all out aimbot+wallhack.. Though I've spent many years hunting cheaters, so my cheater senses are quite sensitive...

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(14:06:57) Riesig: I should stop now. People might get sig material again

Yeah I believe lots of people are cheating in a "smart" way, like not using any dmg mod/aimbot, but still using stuff that would allow them say to see where everyone is. I guess that's not detectable since you'd "just" read the packets. No data manipulation=no detection.

Yeah I believe lots of people are cheating in a "smart" way, like not using any dmg mod/aimbot, but still using stuff that would allow them say to see where everyone is. I guess that's not detectable since you'd "just" read the packets. No data manipulation=no detection.

honestly, there are about no hackers in the game. Sure, a few, but that's it.

The game is the most enjoyable when you just play it, and acknowledge good players. Someday you'll see an obvious hacker, yes, but honestly they're rare

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Tempting since I don't play vehicles a lot, but on the other hand ... would be a total waste of money since I don't play vehicules a lot because I'm not good at it (I maybe should go to small servers with vehicles to L2P )
And my objective is to unlock all attchments for all weapons by kills so I'll be good with all and any weapons !
The shortcut sure unlock you all you want, but it don't grant you skillz, so does cheating ...

I do cheat in some SP game when I know I'll not enjoy the gameplay but the story is great.